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Lila Lee

Lila Lee

Actor · Born 1905-07-25 · Union Hill, New Jersey, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lila Lee (born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel, July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973) was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras. In 1918, she was chosen for a film contract by Hollywood film mogul Jesse Lasky for Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, which later became Paramount Pictures. Her first feature, The Cruise of the Make-Believes, garnered the teenaged starlet much public acclaim and Lasky quickly sent Lee on an arduous publicity campaign. Critics lauded Lila for her wholesome persona and sympathetic character parts. Lee quickly rose to the ranks of leading lady and often starred opposite such matinee heavies as Conrad Nagel, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Reid, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, and Rudolph Valentino. Lee bore more than a slight resemblance to Ann Little, a former Paramount star and frequent Reid co-star who was leaving the film business and at this stage in her career an even stronger resemblance to Marguerite Clark. In 1922 Lee was cast as Carmen in the enormously popular film Blood and Sand, opposite matinee idol Rudolph Valentino and silent screen vamp Nita Naldi; Lee su…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) — Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
  2. Blood and Sand (1922) — Carmen
  3. Male and Female (1919) — Tweeny, the scullery maid
  4. The Unholy Three (1930) — Rosie O'Grady
  5. Terror Island (1920) — Beverly West
  6. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) — Zelda
  7. Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967) — Viola Zickafoose
  8. Flight (1929) — Elinor
  9. Whirlpool (1934) — Helen
  10. The Soul of Youth (1920) — Vera Hamilton
  11. The Intruder (1933) — Connie Wayne
  12. Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) — Princess Irma
  13. Lux Video Theatre (1950) — Mrs. McLean
  14. The Midnight Girl (1925) — Anna
  15. Unholy Love (1932) — Jane Bradford
  16. Officer Thirteen (1932) — Doris Dane
  17. False Faces (1932) — Georgia Rand
  18. The Show of Shows (1929) — Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
  19. A Trip to Paramountown (1922) — Self
  20. Lone Cowboy (1933) — Eleanor Jones
  21. Country Gentlemen (1936) — Louise Heath
  22. The Night of June 13 (1932) — Trudie Morrow
  23. Face in the Sky (1933) — Sharon Hadley
  24. Those Who Dance (1930) — Nora Brady
  25. Nation Aflame (1937) — Mona Franklin Burtis
  26. Hollywood (1923) — Lila Lee
  27. Midsummer Madness (1921) — Daisy Osborne
  28. The New Klondike (1926) — Evelyn Lane
  29. Drag (1929) — Dot
  30. Second Wife (1930) — Florence Wendell Fairchild
  31. The Sacred Flame (1929) — Stella Taylor
  32. Wandering Husbands (1924) — Diana Moreland
  33. War Correspondent (1932) — Julie March
  34. The People's Enemy (1935) — Katherine Carr
  35. Exposure (1932) — Doris Corbin
  36. I Can't Escape (1934) — Mae Nichols
  37. In Love with Life (1934) — Sharon
  38. Crazy to Marry (1921) — Annabelle Landis
  39. The Iron Master (1933) — Janet Stillman
  40. Dark Streets (1929) — Katie Dean